Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function
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ISBN: 9781259277726
Author: Kenneth S. Saladin Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 2TYC
Wallace is the victim of a hunting accident. A bullet grazed his vertebral column, and bone fragments severed the left half of his spinal cord at segments T8 through T10. Since the accident, Wallace has had a condition called dissociated sensory loss, in which he feels no sensations of deep touch or limb position on the left side of his body below the injury, and no sensations of pain 01 heat from the right side Explain what spinal tract(s) the injury has affected and why these sensory losses are on opposite sides of the body.
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